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Sherlock Holmes Research Paper

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‘I’m not a psychopath; I’m a high functioning sociopath, do your research,” (Polaek 389) ‘Surveying the Post-Millennial Sherlock Holmes: A case for the Great Detective as a Man of Our times,’ explores the characteristics of three of the modern variations of Sherlock Holmes within films. In 2004 House M.D. was released, this new series aiding to Holmes being the most human literary character with the most on screen appearances, surpassing hamlet by forty-eight portrayals. (Polaek, 385). Sherlock’s characteristics are portrayed as a child in an adult body, he is described as fighting his addiction, and finds sanity within music, and aside from one friend keeps to himself. The end of the year in 2009 Warner brothers produced the movie Sherlock

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